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Workshop on

Development in Comparative Perspective

SESSION DETAILS

All sessions will be held in the AmEx Room (Room 206),
Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics.

Session 1: Education

Thursday, March 9 (10:00 - 11:30 AM)

• IMPROVING LEARNING OUTCOMES THROUGH INFORMATION PROVISION: EVIDENCE FROM INDIAN VILLAGES
  • Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi), Bidisha Barooah (3ie) and Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics)
• WITHIN-FAMILY INEQUALITIES IN HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION IN INDIA: BIRTH ORDER AND GENDER EFFECTS
  • Heather Congdon Fors and Annika Lindskog (University of Gothenburg)
• GOLD MINING AND EDUCATION: A LONG-RUN RESOURCE CURSE IN AFRICA?
  • Pelle Ahlerup (University of Gothenburg), Thushyanthan Baskaran (University of Siegen) and Arne Bigsten (University of Gothenburg)

 

Session 2: Affirmative Action

Thursday, March 9 (12:00 - 1:00 PM)

• THE FAIRER SEX? WOMEN LEADERS, STRATEGIC DECEPTION AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
  • Lata Gangadharan (Monash University), Tarun Jain (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad), Pushkar Maitra (Monash University) and Joseph Vecci (University of Gothenburg)
• EFFICIENCY CONSEQUENCES OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN ELECTIONS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE FROM INDIA
  • Sabyasachi Das, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Rajas Saroy (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi)

 

Session 3: Culture

Thursday, March 9 (2:30 - 4:00 PM)

• TRIGGERING COOPERATION
  • Martin Dufwenberg (Bocconi University (DEC & IGIER), University of Arizona, CESifo Network, University of Gothenburg), Gunnar Kohlin (University of Gothenburg), Peter Martinsson (University of Gothenburg) and Haileselassie Medhin (Ethiopian Development Research Institute)
• CULTURAL TRANSMISSION OF TRAITS: SOME MACROECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS
  • Mausumi Das (Delhi School of Economics)
• THE IMPACT OF ABORTION LEGALIZATION ON FERTILITY AND FEMALE EMPOWERMENT: NEW EVIDENCE FROM MEXICO
  • Damien Clarke (Oxford University) and Hanna Muhlrad (University of Gothenburg)

 

Session 4: Foreign Aid

Friday, March 10 (10:00 - 11:00 AM)

• CHINESE AID AND LOCAL CORRUPTION
  • Ann-Sofie Isaksson (University of Gothenburg) and Andreas Kotsadam (University of Oslo)
• ON AID ORPHANS AND DARLINGS (AID EFFECTIVENESS IN AID ALLOCATION BY RESPECTIVE DONOR TYPE)
  • Sven Tengstam (University of Gothenburg)

 

Session 5: Trade

Friday, March 10 (11:30 - 12:30 PM)

• ARE FAIRTRADE PRICES FAIR? AN ANALYSIS OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF RETURNS IN THE SWEDISH COFFEE MARKET
  • Dick Durevall and Gunnar Kohlin (University of Gothenburg)
• INDUSTRIAL ENERGY PRICES AND EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS: EVIDENCE FROM INDIA
  • Surender Kumar (Delhi School of Economics) and Prerna Prabhakar (University of Delhi)

 

Session 6: Air Pollution

Friday, March 10 (2:00 - 3:00 PM)

• CLEARING THE AIR ON DELHI'S ODD-EVEN PROGRAM
  • Michael Greenstone (University of Chicago), Santosh Harish (University of Chicago), Rohini Pande (Harvard University) and Anant Sudarshan (EPIC-India)
• DRIVING WHILE GREEN: VEHICULAR REGULATION AND AIR QUALITY IN INDIAN CITIES
  • Parikshit Ghosh and Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics)

 

Panel Discussion: The Policy-Research Bridge

Friday, March 10 (3:00 - 4:30 PM)

Panelists:

• A. Santhosh Mathew (Political economist, Indian Administrative Service)
• Pierre Jacquet (Global Development Network)
• Arne Bigsten (University of Gothenburg)